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SUBJECT Speaker of Turkish Grand National Assembly visits the Iranian Majlis Speaker
DATE 2018-12-10
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On December 7th, Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey Binali Yildrim visited his Iranian counterpart Ali Larijani in Tehran, the capital of Iran.

 

The Turkish speaker paid an official visit to Iran to attend the “Meeting of the Parliament Speakers on Combating Terrorism and Extremism.” Parliament speakers of Iran, Russia, China, Pakistan and Afghanistan also took part in the meeting held on the 8th.

 

Prior to the meeting of the parliament speakers, Speaker Yildrim said that Turkey and Iran are brothers. “We regard Iran’s troubles as our own, and Iran’s joy as ours,”the speaker added.

 

Speaker Yildrim expressed his condolences for the victims of the December 6th attack in Iran’s southeastern city of Chabahar that killed at least two people and wounded 27 people.

 

Iranian Speaker Larijani thanked his Turkish counterpart for accepting the invitation and spoke highly of the 11th plenary session of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly(APA) held from November 28th to December 3rd in Istanbul.

 

According to the speakers, participating countries had the opportunity to discuss regional issues during the plenary session. Speaker Larijani acknowledged that the bilateral relations strengthened during Speaker Yildrim’s term.

 

Turkish Speaker Binali Yildrim also recently visited Kyrgyztan and China, meeting the speakers as well as a number of officials.

 

BY MSEAP Cyber Secretariat (mseap@assembly.go.kr)